AU to HBP, Hermione finds out that she is not the Granger's daughter. We find out there is more to the Slytherins than we thought and not all Gryffindors are good. This is a SSHG fic with some other potential parings. Some Dumbledore and Ron bashing.

Disclaimer:
None of this belongs to me and I am not making any $$$ off of it.
This world belongs to the talented JKR, I am just playing with it.

Note:
This story is AU to HBP mostly due to the fact that this plot line
has been sitting in my notebook since before the book came out.

I
am trying a new angle with this story that I have never tried to
write before. This is a Gryffindor/Slytherin pairing story that will
show corruption in those we believe to be good and compassion in
those we believe to be evil. The main pairing is going Snape/Hermione
with Hermione being the 'main' character. There will be some Ron
and Dumbledore bashing and the Slytherins will be completely out of
character. Overall I think it will be a fun new story but maybe not
for everyone's tastes. Please review and let me know what you
think.

I
have an almost year old baby (I can't believe he'll be one Sept.
23rd!) so I do not have much time to write and will update
as often as I can. I have the first few chapters written but not all
of it. Also, I do not have a beta, and do not plan on using one. I
will spell check as best I can… but please no flames for spelling,
punctuation or grammar errors because if I spend my limited time
hunting for them you will never get a story update.

Thanks,
Redfrog

Prologue:

Everyone
always wondered why Tom Riddle never liked Albus Dumbledore. No one
realized that the main reason was one Minerva McGonagall. Tom and
Minnie (yes she actually went by Minnie) were close friends all
throughout their Hogwarts education. It was odd for a Gryffindor and
a Slytherin to be friends but not these two. You see they both spent
an inordinate amount of time in the library. Minerva had natural
talent in transfiguration and DADA and Tom had it in charms and dark
arts (actual dark arts as they only stopped teaching them once
Dumbledore was headmaster). They often teamed up as study partners
since no one else in their year was intelligent enough to challenge
them.

It
was at the end of their 6th year that things began to
change in their friendship. They began to see each other more, often
finding any possible excuse to spend time together. It was only when
a Slytherin girl asked Tom out and he watched Minerva hex her that
they realized they liked each other romantically. They kept their
relationship a secret, the other Slytherins would not appreciate
their soon to be head boy involved with a Gryffindor.

The
summer before 7th year Minerva was offered an
assistantship with the transfiguration professor, Albus Dumbledore.
She would help him teach the 1st through 3rd
year classes and the time would count towards an apprenticeship with
him after she finished university. Tom and Albus did not get along.
Tom thought Dumbledore was too friendly with Minnie and Albus thought
there was something shifty about Tom. Tom was very upset to find
that Minerva would be working so closely with Dumbledore; he didn't
trust the other man, especially not around his girlfriend. Minerva
was ecstatic about her assistantship as she loved transfiguration and
hoped to teach it one day.

Tom
and Minerva's relationship progressed quickly over the summer. She
even invited him to stay with her for part of the summer since she
knew how much he hated the orphanage. By the time they returned for
their 7th year as head boy and girl, they were head over
heals in love with each other, even if no one else knew it. The year
progressed and after Tom opened the chamber of secrets the school
went into panic. He realized that he and Minerva could never be
together if he wanted to follow in Salazar Slytherin's footsteps.
She was too much a Gryffindor and didn't have the same beliefs that
he did. After framing Hagrid and closing the chamber back up, Tom
started to distance himself from Minerva.

This
confused her and she ended up spending more time than ever with
Dumbledore, which in turn caused Tom to push her away more.
Eventually he told her that they could not be together and they ended
not only their romantic relationship but also their friendship
shortly before Graduation.

As
the years went on, Minerva studied and received her Masters in
transfiguration and Tom slowly morphed into the Dark Lord Voldemort
and began gathering followers. It was almost 30 years before they saw
each other again. By then Minerva was the transfiguration professor
and Gryffindor head of house at Hogwarts due to Dumbledore being
named Headmaster. Tom had begun his first reign of terror and Minerva
was a member of the original Order of the Phoenix.

Minerva
was on an information gathering mission for the Order when she was
kidnapped along with James and Lilly Potter. She was terrified but
James was determined that he could get them out alive, again. This
was the third time that he and Lily had been captured by Death
Eaters. Minerva was taken from the dungeon where they were being kept
and placed in the Dark Lord's bed chamber. She was terrified of
what her once best friend and boyfriend had become.

While
incarcerated by the Death Eaters she spent her time as Voldemort's
play thing. She had given up hope of rescue and resigned herself to
life as the Dark Lord's concubine when the Potters escaped. Tom was
furious and took it out on his death eaters for being incompetent and
then on her for being associated with them. When one of his death
eaters offered to kill Minerva for him, Tom realized that although he
may despise everything she stood for; he still loved her and could
not bear to see her killed. He released her back to Dumbledore and
his Order of the Chicken before one of his followers harmed her by
mistake.

A
month or so later Minerva realized that she was pregnant. As the only
man she had been with was Tom, she knew her child was the spawn of
the Dark Lord. Albus was furious, mostly because he had been trying
to move his relationship with Minerva past platonic for years and
secondly because she refused to terminate the child. Albus convinced
her to hide the pregnancy and then give up the child so that Tom
would never learn that he has an heir. He was terrified of how
powerful and intelligent a child of those two could be. Minerva was
sent away at the end of the school year when she began to show her
condition and gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on September 19,
1979. Albus took the baby girl and switched it with a muggle baby
that had been stillborn and modified the doctors' memories. He
thought she would be safe being raised by parents who thought her
their own instead of growing up knowing she was adopted. A little
over a year later he made the mistake he was trying to avoid with
Minerva's child when he placed little Harry Potter with his abusive
relatives.

The
summer before Hermione's 7th year her mother got very
sick and needed a blood transfusion. Both Hermione and her father
offered their blood but neither was compatible. When Hermione
realized what her parents' blood types were as well as what her own
was she realized that she could not be their biological child. She
asked her dad about it while they waited for a match for her mother's
blood. Her father tried to tell her about her birth and realized that
things were very hazy, like someone had blotted out some of his
memories and all he could see were shadows. He told her how happy
they were that she was alive and healthy since her mother had many
problems during the pregnancy and the doctor's had only given her a
50 chance of having a live birth.

Hermione
realized that her parents must have had their memories altered and
she was switched at birth with their real child who must have died.
It was a good explanation, but it didn't explain why someone would
want to do that and who her real parents were. Was she really a
pureblood? Could she not really be a muggle born like she thought?
She kept the information to herself since she didn't want to alarm
her parents and since she didn't want to stir up a commotion with
her friends. They had a lot more to worry about with the war than who
her real parents might be.

Chapter 1

"Will
you two ever grow up?" Hermione grumbled at Ron and Harry as they
attempted to put their trunks in the compartment they were going to
share for their last train ride to Hogwarts. They were beginning
their 7th year and Hermione was head girl and annoyed with
her friends' immaturity.

"I've
given up all hope of that ever happening," Ginny told her from the
doorway where she saw the mess the two boys were making. "Honestly
you two, you've been able to use magic all summer and you forget
you can once we get back on the train to school!" The boys had the
grace to look sheepish. "You can't imagine how trying it was
being around the two of them for a whole month!" Ginny told
Hermione while shaking her head. Harry had gone to stay at the
Burrow when he turned 17.

"Did
you enjoy staying at the Burrow this summer Harry?" Hermione asked
as she arranged herself next to Ginny in the compartment.

"It
was brilliant," Harry told her with a huge smile. "The whole
family was there this summer, well minus Percy the Prat and we got to
play Quidditch almost every day."

"Oh,
tell her what you did to the Dursley's before you left!" Ron told
him with a laugh.

"Harry
please tell me you didn't use magic on muggles. You know you can
get expelled for that!" Hermione moaned, when would they ever
learn?

"Don't
worry Moine; I made sure to read the law on this one. As long as the
muggles are already aware of magic there is nothing preventing me
from performing it in front of them and as long as the magic itself
is not performed directly on the muggles in question, there is no
harm done." He told her with a grin worthy of his marauder
heritage.

"What
did you do to them then?" She asked, secretly pleased that he found
a loophole to punish his horrible relatives.

"I
just charmed almost everything in the house. I charmed the fridge to
oink at Dudley and not to open for him along with the pantry. I
charmed all the furniture to moan and insult anyone heavy who sits on
it. And I charmed all of Aunt Petunia's favorite china to shriek
and run away if she attempted to clean them. I did some other small
things as well, but those were the best. Oh wait; I also charmed
Dudley's Smeltings stick to shock him every time he hits someone
with it!" He told her with a grin.

"Very
original Harry," She told him with a raised eyebrow. "I was
unaware you were able to perform all those charms."

"Yeah,
well for the first part of the summer the only thing I had to
entertain myself were my school books, so I flipped through them all
and made notes on which ones could help me in the war as well as a
list that would help in pranking." He told her with a grin. "I
intend to make sure the school knows that I am the son of a
marauder!"

"Well,
leave me out of it. I don't want to loose my head girl privileges
because you were acting like a child." She told him.

"What's
so great about being head girl anyway?" Ron asked her with a frown.

"Well
for starters I get my own room. I also don't have a curfew, have
unlimited access to the restricted section and I can assign
detentions and take points." She told them with a huff, making
their eyes bulge out.

"Wow,
I am so going to try for head girl next year!" Ginny laughed.

"You'll
be able to raid the kitchens for us whenever we need!" Ron told her
in greedy awe. "No more avoiding Snape while sneaking food up to
the tower!"

"Sorry
boys, but I will have much more important things to do this year than
sneak you food. A small thing called studying for my NEWTs! Don't
think you two will be getting out of studying either." She scolded
them before grabbing a book and settling in for the long ride.

Draco
Malfoy was fuming at not having been made head boy. Ever since his
father was sent to prison at the end of his 5th year
things had not been going his way. The headmaster was no longer able
to be controlled by his father strong arming the Board of Governors
and it was becoming tiresome. He was accustomed to having his way all
the time and didn't like having to work for things that he could
easily have handed to him. He was even more upset that the bushy
haired little mudblood Granger had gotten head girl. He couldn't
believe that a mudblood had a higher place in the school than he did!
He was going to make that uppity know-it-all pay for upstaging him.

Draco
spent the first week of school planning his revenge on the mudblood.
His professors noticed he seemed distracted but didn't mention
anything. The only one who knew he was up to something was Snape who
mentioned to the headmaster that they should keep a close eye on the
boy.

Draco
had finally figured out how to embarrass the head girl. There were
spells that were only activated by certain types of blood. His house
had a large array of anti-muggle and anti-muggle born curses on it.
He just modified one of those curses so it was no longer deadly. He
may want the bookworm to suffer but there was no way he was risking
expulsion by killing her, she just wasn't worth that risk.

The
curse would activate when a muggle born walked through the scanning
point. The person who set it off would then be hung from their feet
in the air, stripped of clothing and a 'No Muggles Welcome' sign
would hang from their neck. Draco thought it fitting since Granger
seemed such a goody-goody prude as well. He had overheard Ron and her
fighting the year before about how she wouldn't let him get past
1st base. The whole school knew that the Weasel had dumped
her a day later for a Hufflepuff who would put out. Draco still
chuckled at the mysterious hex that Weasel got hit with that made him
flaccid for two months after that. It was a shame they never caught
Granger or she never would have made head girl.

Draco
finished setting up the muggle curse seconds before potions class and
slipped in the door just as the bell was ringing. As Granger was the
only mudblood in their advanced potions class he didn't have to
worry about someone else setting his trap off. He was smug all
throughout Potions class and Snape was on high alert. When at the end
of class nothing bad had happened, Severus wondered what exactly had
Malfoy so excited. He followed the students out of the classroom to
try and prevent whatever it was that Malfoy had done. He could see
the residual magic of the curse in the hallway but was not in time
before the students started walking through its path. As he inspected
it, wondering why it was not harming the students, he realized it was
triggered by muggle blood. He yelled for Miss Granger to stop but it
was too late. He watched as she walked a foot past the magical
scanners, but nothing happened. She turned around to question him as
he hurried towards her. Draco was staring in shock as the mudblood
stood in the middle of his anti-mudblood trap and was perfectly fine!
He was livid and trying to figure out what he had done wrong.

"Never
mind Miss Granger," Snape told her with a sneer. "It seems to be
your lucky day." He watched her walk off and wondered why the trap
didn't spring and turned on Draco to demand him to dismantle it.
Before he had the chance to make his demands Colin Creevy came
rushing up to him and the trap sprang. Colin was hanging from the
ceiling of the hall, completely nude and the 'No Muggles Welcome'
sign swayed around his neck as the poor boy looked around terrified.
Snape didn't know what to think, obviously the trap worked but why
did it not effect Granger?

Draco
was thinking the same thing. He had obviously set the trap up
properly as Creevy was proof, but why didn't Granger set it off? He
would have to ask his father; maybe he missed some aspect of the ward
that scanned the blood.

Professor
Snape let down the terrified Gryffindor boy and conjured him a robe.
"What were you doing barreling down my hallway in the first place
Mr. Creevy?"

"The
headmaster wants to see you in his office before lunch," the small
boy was able to stutter out before dashing of towards Gryffindor
tower to get into new robes.

"We
will discuss your punishment later Mr. Malfoy," Snape sneered at
him. "For now I must go inform the headmaster of what has taken
place. I would be careful in transfiguration this afternoon, I doubt
Professor McGonagall will appreciate knowing one of her precious
Gryffindors was hanging from the ceiling."

"I
don't understand it Albus," Snape told his mentor later that
night after dinner. "The curse was set up perfectly yet Granger
walked right through."

"I
am sure you are mistaken Severus, the curse must have needed multiple
muggle born signatures to set off and Miss Granger was just the first
one through." Albus told him, upset that Hermione's parentage may
come into question. If it got out who she really was it could be very
bad news for the light side.

"Could
the Grangers perhaps be squibs?" Severus asked. "If they are from
magical parents that would explain why the curse didn't affect her.
Even if just one of her parents was a squib it could explain it."

"Perhaps
Severus, but it could also be that young Malfoy did not set the curse
properly. Either way I expect you to punish him appropriately. I
believe a week's detention with either Minerva or Argus will cure
him of his need to belittle muggle born students." Albus told him
before dismissing him when his Dark Mark flared to life.

"I
must go Albus, he calls." Severus said and hurried out past the
apparition wards and to the Dark Lord's side. He bowed low and took
his place in the circle.

"Severus,
I was informed today that Potter's mudblood friend may not be a
mudblood after all." Voldemort hissed at him. After Snape told him
the story from his own perspective he told him what Albus had said
about it as well as his questioning if her parents could be squibs.
"All the possibilities are intriguing Severus. Test her blood, find
out. If she is pure we will begin recruiting her, she is a very
talented witch and if she has purity of blood she would make a nice
addition to our ranks."

"Yes
my lord," he said bowing. "I will begin the potions needed to
test her blood immediately. Is she to have knowledge that I have her
blood?"

"Only
if it will not get back to that old fool. Convince the chit you need
it for something or force it from her, just get her tested
immediately."

"Yes
my lord, thank you my lord," Snape said and dissapperated.

The
next day Severus approached Hermione while she studied alone in the
library. "Miss Granger I require an ingredient for a potion that I
am hoping you will be able to willingly supply me."

"Which
ingredient do you need Professor?" She asked him politely,
wondering why he would ask her and not one of his Slytherins.

"I
need blood of a virgin willingly given," he told her and studied
her face. "The older the girl the more potent and I am afraid that
none of my upper year Slytherins qualify to donate."

"I
am able to supply that ingredient sir," she said with a blush and
not meeting his eyes, therefore missing his triumphant smirk. They
headed to his office and he retrieved three small vials of her blood
before forcing her to eat healing chocolate before going back to
studying.

Severus
added the required drops of blood to the pureblood potion. The potion
changed colors depending upon the purity of blood added. It will turn
yellow for a complete muggle with no magic, orange for a muggleborn,
red for a child of a muggleborn or squib and a muggle (1/4 magic),
purple for a half-blood, blue for ¾ blood, and green for a
pureblood. After adding Granger's blood the potion turned blue and
Snape's eyes bulged, she was more pure of blood than both he and
the dark lord!

After
finding that she was indeed not muggle born he added a vial of her
blood to the paternity potion he had brewed in anticipation. He knew
his lord would want to know why she was hidden among muggles. He
could not believe the results of the potion and brewed another batch
to confirm the test. Hermione Jane Granger was the daughter of
Minerva McGonagall and Tom Marvolo Riddle. Severus could not wrap his
mind around the fact that first she was the daughter of the dark
lord, who to his knowledge did not know he had a child and secondly,
when was Minerva ever pregnant?

Before
Severus had time to go to Albus with this new information he was
called back to the Dark Lord's side. He knew he must reveal the
information or loose his position as a spy but was not looking
forward to Albus' reaction. "What results do you have for me
Severus?" Voldemort hissed at him.

"My
lord," Severus bowed shaking, hoping he would not be killed for
what he was about to say. "The results of the purity test revealed
the Granger girl to score blue which means she is the daughter of at
least a pureblood and a half-blood. I went on to test her paternity
once I received the results of the first test. I performed the
paternity test twice my lord to verify that the results were in fact
accurate. There is no mistake my lord."

"Who
does this child belong to?" Voldemort hissed, sensing Severus'
hesitance and fear of being reprimanded for giving the answer.

"Her
mother is Minerva McGonagall my lord," Severus started with the
easier of the two parents. He saw Voldemort tense at hearing that and
hurriedly continued before he was cursed or worse killed. "It seems
that you are the child's father my lord, though I do not know how."

Tom
remained absolutely silent as he processed the information. He has a
child and heir and with the woman he once loved. She had hidden the
fact that she was pregnant well or his spies would have found out
back then. He knew when she became with his child, for he often
thought of the days she spent in his bedchambers as his captive. She
was the only woman he had slept with since before he took the name
Voldemort. He could remember the night that she finally stopped
fighting him and accepted she was his captive. She had screamed his
name in passion that night, captive or not he knew how to please a
woman. He wondered if that was the night his daughter was conceived.
He wondered how she would respond to knowing he was her father.

"Tell
me more about the girl," Tom told Severus and sat down on his
throne, listening to everything Severus could remember about his
daughter. He could handle that she was a Gryffindor, he could handle
that she was raised muggle, what he had problems with was the fact
that she was so close to Potter. He also did not like hearing how
close she had been to the Weasley boy, that family may be pure but
not good enough for his daughter. "Tell me how you got her blood."
He demanded, for Severus' sake she better not have been harmed.

"I
told her I needed Virgin's blood for a potion I was brewing and she
willingly offered it to me," Severus told him glad he had taken
that option and not harmed her.

Tom
was relieved to hear that his daughter was still pure; he would have
had to kill the Weasley boy for deflowering his daughter. "Return
to the school, make sure she is treated with the respect she
deserves." Tom said before calling the rest of his death eaters and
issuing the command that Hermione Granger was not to be harmed per
pain of death.

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